The tug-of-war over space shuttle Discovery is becoming more volatile. Discovery — the crown jewel of the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia — is the subject of a ...

Texas lawmakers have demanded the Discovery shuttle be moved to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, but daunting technical challenges remain—and Virginia officials have dug in against the move. The ...

The Boeing 747 has taken many forms in its decades of service. First introduced in 1970, the Queen of the Skies has flown for airlines all over the world. It has also had a handful of side gigs over ...

Lawmakers pushing to move the iconic spacecraft from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to Texas just got the Department of Justice involved. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes Texas Senators have ...

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn is asking the Department of Justice to investigate the Smithsonian Institution for “potential violations of the Anti-Lobbying Act,” escalating prior claims as he works to move ...

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our understanding of science, space, and the universe. On November 2, 2000, ...

From moon landings to Mars rovers, NASA has shaped humanity's journey into the cosmos. NASA wasn't born with a rocket in its hand — it was forged in the heat of the Cold War, when the race to space ...

WASHINGTON — Commercial space station developer Axiom Space has replaced its chief executive after less than six months on the job. The Houston-based company announced Oct. 15 that it hired Jonathan ...

WASHINGTON — Atomic-6, a composite materials manufacturer based in Marietta, Georgia, believes it has found a lighter, more resilient alternative to traditional satellite shielding. Following ...

Satellite imaging company Vantor—formerly Maxar Intelligence—has signed a contract with the U.S. Space Force to help run a “neighborhood watch” in space to monitor for space-based threats like rogue ...